August 2010

Gain the Advantage: Set Your Own Expectations, Pt. 2

Having the ability to shape your professional environment in a way that’s advantageous to you puts you in the best position to reach your goals as quickly as possible. Setting your own expectations does just that: helps shape your environment to reach your goals as quickly as possible…

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Gain the Advantage: Set Your Own Expectations, Pt. 1

It’s to our benefit to operate under conditions that we set for ourselves. In the world of business we’re frequently held to deadlines often impractical to achieve quality output; however, we are merited under the basis of making the best out whatever situation we have to face. This means that it’s advantageous to have the ability to set your own expectations – giving you the best possible working environment possible.

Setting your own expectations increases your ability to operate as your own business unit by loosening the cuffs of poor leadership, giving you the ability to work under conditions that you create.

This article will provide you with quick and easy tactics that you can implement today (or tomorrow if you procrastinate) to set your own expectations.

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Leadership as a Strategic Maneuver to Build Allies

Leadership can be described as the process of social influence in which one person can enlist the assistance and support of others in the accomplishment of a task or goal. This can provide an enduring component to any strategic plan providing; aid in tactical maneuvering, and better angles to operate from.

We can’t achieve everything by ourselves. Well, maybe we can, but for efficiency sake it’s much better to enlist (or have the option to enlist) the aid from others to help see your plan through. This article will cover a few quick and simple methods to increase your leadership stock with the goal of developing a group of allies that you can call upon for assistance whenever needed…

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Always Win…Even In Defeat

Most people don’t understand the concept of winning, even in defeat, and what having a winning attitude really is.

The focus in this article is on the mentality aspect of your attitude in terms of what you take from a win, and a loss.I know that the terms “win” and “lose” have direct relation to sporting event outcomes – but that is NOT my focus in this article, although the attitude can be applied to any scenario.

There are situations when you win in theory, but you really loose the battle. And there are situations when you loose in theory, but you really win the battle…

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Evade the Fear of Failure

Failure is just about guaranteed for us all. No matter the personality, background, or ethnicity we all want to win, we never want to fail. This creates a fear in us that can lead to under-compensating into a mode of procrastination – keeping us free of the dreaded event, failure. But in reality, procrastination alone is a symbol of failure, because with it, you fail to act.

In this article we’ll tackle the fear of failure and become more equipped to lean our focus on our goals at hand; not the dreaded outcome (failure).

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